Does Lightroom Import From Nikon Camera

This camera is a newer model (D5500) and is not yet recognized by ACR software. Will that change? Do the older model Nikons work directly with Lightroom?

Coming at this from a different angle. Just beginning with dslr and imaging software. This has been the process; Open the camera in windows explorer, cut the nef image files and paste in a folder named NEF. Open ViewNX 2, select the new nef images and convert to tif, with the destination of a folder named TIF. Open LR5 and import the new tif files for processing. I understand that LR leaves the tif unaltered at its location.

Capture NX2 cannot load the nef files and Capture NX-D doesn't recognize the camera but does work with the nef files.

Can LR be used to take the nef files from the camera and place into a folder of choosing? Should the out format be TIF, DNG or some other?

What I do is insert the card in the laptop, import with the Nikon transfer to my NEF folders and when I still used lightroom, I simply had it add the files to the lib. That was the quickest method.

Isn't there a dng converter you can temporarily use? The moment the update is there, you should be able to use the NEF, unless they are funny and only add the D5500 support to the new LR version.

I just checked, the DNG converter isn't up-to-date either so TiFF is your only option. You can let LR add, copy or move those TiFFs but you'll have to convert the NEF to TiFF in Nikon soft.

Am I missing something here.
Why don't you insert your SD Card into your computer and open/load directly into LR5?

The answer is that the camera is a new model and Adobe Camera Raw has yet to include it into their software, therefor LR5 cannot import directly from the card.

There is always a time lag between the introduction of a new camera and the RAW software update. It is very frustrating, but it is usually only a couple of weeks or so until there is an update. Once the software is updated, Lightroom will import the pictures directly in RAW format and you can do with them as you like from there.

Got it, I didn't realize that was an issue with LR.